Chicago cardinal accused of diverting $1 million

The US attorney's office confirmed it is looking into allegations the leader of the biggest Roman Catholic archdiosese in the country diverted as much as $1 million in tax-exempt church funds to enrich a childhood. friend.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a federal grand jury subpoenaed financial records of the archdiocese, John Cardinal Cody, and his longtime friend Helen Dolan Wilson, whose meager personal holdings in the 1960s reportedly grew to a current value of $1 million.